I used to do Let’s Plays. Video game walkthroughs. The majority of my videos had positive or neutral comments – decent stuff.

Then I got one negative comment, and I haven’t uploaded a video in almost an entire year. It destroyed my sense of self-worth there, and I used to say I wouldn’t let the comments get to me, but they do.

The “inspiration is like food poisoning” bit was great. So was all of it. (I do have pen, paper and a light next to my pillow—I wrote something without the light, one night, and never did decipher it).

Yeah, YouTube commenters are the dumbest part of the internet. Getting to see comics like that is the good part.

I cannot stop laughing at “tornado full of shrieking trolls.” Cannot. Stop.

That was pretty funny.
I do wish that perhaps it was a toilet full of shrieking trolls. That way we can press the handle and flush the trolls away. I suddenly have an image of trolls shrieking “heeeeelp meeeee” as down the toilet they go.

Here: I think that
“Matthew Inman knocks another one out of the metaphorical ballpark.”
and
‘Matthew Inman metaphorically knocks another one out of the ballpark.’
may be intended to express the same sentiment, but they mean different things.

Allow me to completely ruin Inman’s new book, in the spirit of destructive interference. The book is entitled How to Tell if Your Cat is Plotting to Kill You. You don’t need a book for this, as it is really easy to know if your cat is plotting to kill you: Is it a cat? If so, the answer is yes, it is plotting to kill you.

You can always try adding “youtube.com###watch-discussion” to Adblock’s element hiding helper thingie. It at least lets you pretend the world is a little bit better, for a little while.

Then you give in to that nagging voice that says ‘hey, not ALL the comments are awful, you know, you could be missing out on rational, positive helpful stuff. you should turn off that filter and see how things are going!’